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Macron wants an invitation to the BRICS Summit? This idea is bold and innovative: Global Times editorial French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech as he meets the French community, in Beijing, China, on April 5, 2023. Photo: VCG According to French media reports, French President Emmanuel Macron has asked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for an invitation to the BRICS Summit scheduled for August. This news has not been confirmed by the Élysée Palace yet, and the spokesperson for the South African president claimed to be unaware of Macron's request. Moscow has asked Paris to provide an explanation: Do they…

Germany Resumes Petroleum Imports from Iran despite Sanctions: Eurostat TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Germany resumed its petroleum imports from Iran after five years earlier this year despite a continued American sanction that bans any trade of energy products with Iran. Data cited in a Monday report by ٍEurostat showed that Germany had taken delivery of a large petroleum shipment from Iran in March. The report cited data from the European Union’s statistics agency the Eurostat which showed the shipment imported by Germany had contained nearly 70,000 metric tons of Iranian crude oil or petroleum products, PressTV reported. Germany halted imports …

'The most dangerous of all my trips...' Source: https://m.rediff.com/news/1998/sep/02ship.htm For B Navindra Karkera, even after spending 26 years in the merchant navy did not prepare him for the events of August 14. As the rest of his countrymen were preparing to usher in the 51st anniversary of the country's independence, he found himself and his crew taken into custody by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam off the Point Pedro coast, witnessed his ship, M V Princess Kash, being bombed by Lankan jets, and lived through a gunfight between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTTE. Now back in Bombay, his ordeal has left him w…

Australian uni tops global sustainability rankings Western Sydney University is the world's top institution for sustainability after taking out first place in the Times Higher Education's Impact Rankings. The university claimed the overall top honour on Thursday evening, beating out the University of Manchester in second spot and Canada's Queen's University in third. The rankings, now in their fifth year, measure an institution's contribution to the United Nations' sustainable development goals, with a focus on the areas of research, stewardship, outreach and teaching. Western Sydney vice-chancellor Barney Glover said the university was committed to …

Combined by Nanni Chozhan from various sources and first released in Wikipedia. The Sea Tigers have been accused of hijacking 4 Sri Lankan supply vessels in the waters of Sri Lanka namely Irish Mona (in August 1995), Misen (in July 1997) Morong Bong (in July 1997) and Princess Kash (in August 1998) but it destroyed by Sri Lankan Navy's Airforce along with cargo in it. They have also dismantled equipment from a drifted vessel named MV Farah III (in December 2006). In the year 1996, Lawrence Thilakar, a member of the LTTE central committee, said that the Tigers would target both Sri Lankan military inside and outside supply lines.[38] A second development w…

Scientists confirm meteorite crash-landed into New Jersey home https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/scientists-confirm-meteorite-crash-landed-new-jersey-home-99292637 A New Jersey family made an out-of-this-world discovery this week. After a mysterious black rock was found in a Trenton-area home that had apparently damaged the ceiling and floor, the homeowner and his children went searching for answers. Christine Lloyd points to where the meteorite came through the ceiling in her father's home. WPVI Suzy Kop found the metallic rock on Monday in an upstairs bedroom in her father's …

Sri Lanka: Asymmetries in the peace process - the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran As Clausewitz observed, war is politics by other means. Negotiations are a form of politics, but without some real or perceived symmetry of power they will be an exercise in one side imposing its will on the other. Power - i.e. the ability of one party to move the other in an intended direction - is constituted by military resources, economic leverage, international legitimacy, the moral basis of one's position, mass support, leadership, etc. It includes 'hard power' such as military coercion, as well as 'soft power', which is defined by Jos…

US fighter jet crashes in South Korea US fighter jet crashes in South Korea By Jake Kwon, CNN Updated 11:31 PM EDT, Fri May 5, 2023 …

The Pentagon has released a detailed fact sheet on U.S. security assistance to Ukraine. https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/03/2003214586/-1/-1/1/UKRAINE-FACT-SHEET-MAY-3.PDF…

Lee Kuan Yew on Leadership: The Harvard Interview Christopher Armstrong 9:15 The communists wanted a different system (Singapore demographic = 70% Chinese at the time) 12:45 "Communism can't win in a multi-racial society." 14:40 "I was a lawyer, I understood completely what Constitutional practices were. [The opposition] didn't." 22:55 "What made me a leader was, when the time came, I was the best speaker [in English]." 23:50 Mandarin = the Chinese language of the educated 26:20 Learning to speak was innate, but also came from wanting to be a lawyer. His parents suffered in the 1930's, and their friends who were doctors, engi…

US Dollar Faces A Rebellion China and Brazil have struck a deal to trade in their local currencies instead of the US dollar. Saudi Arabia has become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. It’s a security block led by China. What does this shift in West Asia mean? Palki Sharma explains

Experts say AI scams are on the rise as criminals use voice cloning, phishing and technologies like ChatGPT to trick people By Tom Williams Posted 8h ago8 hours ago, updated 6h ago6 hours ago Artificial intelligence is getting better at replicating a person's voice and generating coherent conversation.(Reuters: Philippe Wojazer) arlier this year Microsoft revealed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which could recreate a person's voice after listening to them speak for only three seconds. It was a sign of just how quickly AI could be used to convincingly replicate a key pi…

UN Inspector Says Bush and Blair Should Be Tried At Hague 20 years on, should George W. Bush be on trial for Iraq? | The Mehdi Hasan Show

Colonel Douglas Macgregor sits down with Stephen Gardner for update on the Ukraine-Russia war. Is the war in Ukraine about to hit a turning point because I am starting to see groups like the Washington post and the New York Times finally tell the truth about the strength and condition of Ukraine’s army and the number of casualties they have suffered? Why do you say that Bakhmut has been like a meat grinder? And is it time for Ukraine to fall back, regroup, give themselves a couple days to build up ammunition, and then dig in and try and hold the line again? Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says it’s time for the United States to get serious and show Russia who is …

What Ukraine Needs to Learn from Afghanistan The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world slips further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our very survival could go up in flames. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to a mere 90 seconds to midnight. The world’s biggest economic loser in 2022 was Ukraine, where the economy collapsed by 35% according to the International Monetary Fund. The war in Ukraine could end soon, and economic recovery could begin, but this depends on Ukraine understanding its predicament as victim of a US-Russia proxy war that broke out in 2014. The US has been hea…

Wall Street's 4 top banks just had $55 billion wiped off their market value in a single day People walk inside JP Morgan headquarters in New York, October 25, 2013. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Four of America's biggest banks lost a combined $55 billion of market value in a single day as financial stocks plunged. US bank shares took a beating Thursday amid fears of contagion effects from the turmoil at Silicon Valley Bank and Silvergate.…

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Japanese giant Mitsubishi Corporation has decided to wind up operations in Sri Lanka next month after being an integral part of bilateral ties and some of the country’s key infrastructure projects for nearly 60 years. The closure of Colombo Office by Mitsubishi by 31 March has come as a big shock to the private sector, both local and foreign which described the move as a big setback for Sri Lank Sources said for Mitsubishi, Sri Lanka was one of its first overseas offices as it contributed immensely towards the businesses and many Sri Lankan companies. It also played a significant role in the bilateral relationship between Japan and Sri Lank …

Source: surviving TCHR website (http://www.tchr.net/50_year_arrest_kill.htm) Tamil Centre for Human Rights - TCHR Centre Tamoul pour les Droits de l'Homme Email : tchrgs@tchr.net / tchrdip@tchr.net Website : www.tchr.net Arrest/ Year …

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Treasury Warned It Would Take 'Extraordinary Measures' Because of the Debt Limit. Here's What That Means (benscripps / Pixabay) (CNN) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen formally put Congress on notice last week that the agency will have to start taking "extraordinary measures" after the US reaches its $31.4 trillion debt limit on Thursday. But the nation is not yet at the debt ceiling crisis point that could tank the financial markets, suspend Social Security payments to senior citizens, hurt the economy and cause other chaos. That's what th…

THE CIA IS USING A EUROPEAN NATO ALLY’S SPY SERVICE TO CONDUCT A COVERT SABOTAGE CAMPAIGN INSIDE RUSSIA UNDER THE AGENCY’S DIRECTION, ACCORDING TO FORMER U.S. INTELLIGENCE AND MILITARY OFFICIALS. DECEMBER 24, 2022 BY JACK MURPHY The campaign involves long standing sleeper cells that the allied spy service has activated to hinder Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine by waging a secret war behind Russian lines. Years in the planning, the campaign is responsible for many of the unexplained explosions and other mishaps that have befallen the Russian military industrial complex since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, according…

CNN Exclusive: A single Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies By Natasha Bertrand Updated 1:51 PM EST, Wed January 4, 2023 Aftermath of a Russian drone attack on Kyiv, early on the morning of December 19, 2022. Sergei Supinksky/AFP/Getty Images WashingtonCNN — Parts made by more than a dozen US and Western companies were found i…

Power in America More books & articles • An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% (with link to 2014 update) • The Class-Domination Theory of Power: An explanation of why the wealth and income distributions are so unequal in the U.S., and how the political system works. • The Left and the Right in Thinking, Personality, and Politics: An exploration of the personality differences and psychology behind the liberal/conservative divide. • Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives based on social science research. Wealth, Income, and Power by G. Wi…